NI Week Advanced User Track

[hooovahh]

Hello all.  So NI is trying something new this year for NI Week.  Year after year NI gets feedback from those that attend NI Week and one of the most common things people ask for is more technical sessions.  We don't care too much for a marketing presentation telling us how your company is awesome, and we don't really need NI to tell us about some new hardware we'll never use.  But coming back from NI Week with new technologies that excite me and make my job get done better, makes my boss want to send me next year.

So as a way for NI Week to get more technical, NI has dedicated a room at NI Week to advanced users to give presentations on advanced topics, allowing them to make up their own Advanced Users.  This track will be in addition to the other tracks NI usually has for various industries, like aerospace, and automotive.  These presentations will be given by advanced developers who are LabVIEW Champions and will focus less on marketing and more on being technical, sorta similar to what you'll see at a CLD/CLA Summit.  So checkout Room 15 Tuesday and Wednesday for the advanced awesomeness, you should expect lots of hearty frank group discussions.

It seems not all of the topics are posted by NI yet, but here are just some of them.  And yes for a bit of self promotion I am giving an updated presentation on XNodes that I gave earlier this year.

[MarkCG]

That's great! The couple of times I went to NI week I felt like the NI presented sessions were technically extremely weak. I really like the conference fee and lost work time was not worth it for this reason. It may convince me to come next year.

[hooovahh]

So the advanced user track seemed to be a pretty good success but maybe I'm biased.  The user track presentation content can be found on the NI Community here.  Or possibly in the NI Week Content subforum, and of course Mark was awesome enough to record all the sessions and has it's own thread here on LAVA.  If you attended any of the sessions (or any NI Week session) I encourage you to give feedback wherever NI takes NI Week feedback.  I word it that way because I've heard reports that the session surveys had issues.

[TimVargo]

I too thought this new track was a success!  I attended quite a few sessions in Room 15, and I thought they were great.  For several previous years I was one of many to give feedback that I wanted more advanced, more technical content; and I'm glad to see that NI was listening.  I encourage NI to do this again in future years.  Speaking of future years, remember that starting with NIWeek 2017 the conference will be held in late May.

[Sean Donner]

This track was everything I hoped it would be and I hope NI brings it back for next year.  I especially enjoyed your session on Xnodes and VIM's Brian.